Apache Hadoop 2.0 (Alpha) Released

As the release manager for the Apache Hadoop 2.0 release, it gives me great pleasure to share that the Apache Hadoop community has just released Apache Hadoop 2.0.0 (alpha)! While only an alpha release (read: not ready to run in production), it is still an important step forward as it represents the very first release that delivers new and important capabilities, including:

In addition to these new capabilities, there are several planned enhancements that are on the way from the community, including HDFS Snapshots and auto-failover for HA NameNode, along with further improvements to the stability and performance with the next generation of MapReduce (YARN). There are definitely good times ahead.

Again, please note that the Apache Hadoop community has decided to use the alpha moniker for this release since it is a preview release that is not yet ready for production deployments for the following reasons:

We still need to iterate over some of the APIs (especially with the switch to protobufs) before we declare them stable, i.e. something that can be supported over the long run in a compatible manner.

Several features including HDFS HA, NextGen MapReduce et al need a lot more testing and validation before they are ready for prime time.

While we are excited about the progress made for supporting HA for HDFS, auto-failover for HDFS NameNode and HA for NextGen MapReduce are still a work-in-progress.

One more point, in stable version of hadoop i have configuration files under conf folder in installation directory.

But in 2.0.0-aplha version, there is etc/hadoop directory and it doesnt have mapred-site.xml, hadoop-env.sh. do i need to copy conf folder under share folder into hadoop-home directory? or do i need to copy these files from share folder into etc/hadoop directory?

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